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Natural Law And Everyday Law, Joseph O'Meara

Journal Articles

Like most terms "natural law" has had, and has, a variety of meanings. In most of its meanings it touches scarcely at all the professional concerns of the lawyer but moves, rather, on a plane widely separated from his daily cares and duties. Thus, for the most part, natural law stands aloof from the urgent here-and-now with which lawyer and judge necessarily are preoccupied; it inhabits a world apart.

In these remarks I hope to suggest an approach to natural law which will make it useful on a day-to-day basis in the perplexities by which practitioners and judges constantly are …

A Study In Perfidy, Allan D. Vestal

Indiana Law Journal

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Right To Counsel - Representation By Attorney Disqualified For Non-Payment Of Bar Dues, Lawrence P. Roesen

William & Mary Law Review

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Professional Responsibility And The Law Schools Revisited, Irving M. Mehler

Journal of Legal Education

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Book Reviews, Alan R. Bromberg, Albert A. Ehrenzweig, R. W. Fleming, William E. Hogan, David A. Bookstaver, Andrew V. Clements

Journal of Legal Education

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A.I.D.- An Heir Of Controversy, Charles E. Rice

Journal Articles

What is this thing called artificial insemination? Is it a menace to society? Or is it a fantasy of little moment beyond the precincts of 1984 and the "Brave New World"? Or does the fact lie somewhere in between? Whatever your view, you can readily bolster your position by citing respectable authority. For example, a respected advocate declaims that, "Nothing in modem times has so seriously challenged the basic concept of our society founded as it is on the biological tripod of father, mother and child which we call the family unit." Oppositely, a competent man of medicine notes that, …

Canons 28 And 29 -- An Appraisal, Henry S. Drinker

Vanderbilt Law Review

How far should Canons 28 and 29 of the ABA's Canons of Ethics deter a lawyer from taking or participating in proceedings against a fellow lawyer in a matter involving the propriety of his professional conduct, by reason of the fact that such proceedings may injure such lawyer's professional reputation. The Canons do not clearly or fully cover this problem...

The solution of these problems related to participating in litigation against a fellow lawyer depends in each case to a great extent on the accompanying circumstances. Professional courtesy should not be distorted or overemphasized merely to avoid a disagreeable or …

Constitutional Law--Right To Decline To Give Incriminating Testimony--Disciplinary Action Against Lawyers, T. V. W.

West Virginia Law Review

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Lawyers' Obligations To The Courts, Byron O. House

West Virginia Law Review

This paper will concern itself largely with the duty of lawyers to the courts. It is written from the viewpoint of a country lawyer suddenly catapulted from almost thirty years of practice to his state's court of last resort via eight months on the trial bench. These vantage points have afforded an opportunity to observe the lawyer's duty to the courts in various perspectives. With due respect to the learned scholars who have written on the subject, this small contribution is launched.

The Extracurricular Lawyer, John J. Mccloy

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Role Of The Lawyer In A Changing World, Arnold J. Toynbee, John J. Mccloy, Francis P. Gaines

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Report Of The Special Committee Of The American Bar Foundation On Canons Of Ethics, American Bar Foundation

Miscellaneous Materials

The Special Committee on Canons of Ethics submits its report, detailing the procedures followed, the material accumulated, and the conclusions reached by the Special Committee since its appointment in February, 1955.

Constitutional Law--Right To Counsel--Conflicting Interests Of Counsel As Ground For Reversal, T. E. P.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ethics In Legal Practice In Nebraska: A Comparative Analysis, William F. Swindler

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Trumbull: Materials On The Lawyer's Professional Responsibility, Glenn R. Winters

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Materials on the Lawyer's Professional Responsibility. By William M. Trumbull.

Attorney Negligence…A Suit Within A Suit, Richard G. Coggin

West Virginia Law Review

The law today, it would seem, has become, like most professions and sciences a creature of specialization. Not many years ago most practitioners of the law in this country would have considered the general field of negligence a somewhat limited subject. But today, even this small segment of the vast science of law must be divided and subdivided, each individual subdivision being guided by its own special set of rules. Because of this transition from the general to the special, any paper of this sort must be strictly limited in scope. Even the seemingly narrow subject of "attorney negligence” would …

Criminal Law--Plea Of Not Guilty--Coercion By Judge, G. D. G.

West Virginia Law Review

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Genesis Of Conflicts In Legal Ethics, Jaroslav G. Moravec

Journal of Legal Education

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Evidence--Attorney-Client Privilege--Necessity Of Proceeding Against Client, J. O. F.

West Virginia Law Review

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Constitutional Law - Due Process - Denial Of Admission To The Bar Based On Unwarranted Inferences Of Bad Moral Character, Jerome B. Libin

Michigan Law Review

Power over admission to the bar has long been vested in the judiciary of each state. While the legislature may prescribe certain standards, the state court alone is responsible for the determination of those qualified for the practice of law within its jurisdiction. The application of these standards often demands the exercise of meticulous judgment by the court in reaching its conclusion as to an applicant's fitness. Where, on the evidence or lack of evidence presented, the court finds that it cannot in good conscience grant its approval, the candidate is denied admission. To the extent that such a denial …

Malpractice Of Patent Attorneys, B. Joan Holdridge

Cleveland State Law Review

This article will consider briefly the general nature of patent practice, and will indicate those areas where negligence on the part of the attorney could prevent a person from obtaining a patent or from having as full coverage of his invention as that to which he is entitled.

Legal Ethics--Disbarment Proceedings--Conviction For Willful Evasion Or Avoidance Of Federal Income Taxes As Grounds, Wilbur D. Short

Kentucky Law Journal

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Attorney And Client - Scope Of Attorney's Authority - Client Bound By Wrongful Settlement Of Claim, Robert M. Vorsanger

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff hired an attorney to prosecute a claim for damages resulting from the alleged negligence of defendant, a chiropodist, in the treatment of plaintiff's wife. Three years after the institution of the suit plaintiff discovered that his attorney had agreed with defendant to settle the suit and had forged plaintiff's name to a release and to a bank draft given by defendant in settlement of the claim. Plaintiff immediately instituted action to have the settlement stipulation deleted from the record and to have the case reinstated for hearing. On appeal from the trial court's decision for plaintiff, held, reversed. …

Admission To The Bar--Denial Of Admission To Admitted And Suspected Subversives, I. A. P. Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

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The Lawyer's Role In The Profession And The Community, Francis Bergan

Buffalo Law Review

Address delivered on June 24, 1957, to the class of newly admitted attorneys at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Summary Of A Statement Of The Effect Of Religious Principles On Lawyers' Ethical Problems, F. B. Mackinnon

Vanderbilt Law Review

The lawyer-client relationship provides an opportunity for the intimate relationship in which religious principles can best be acted upon. But taking advantage of this opportunity may destroy the lawyer's usefulness to the legal system and be harmful to the client's purely "legal" affairs. And the trends of the profession toward specialization and combination reduce the intimacy of the lawyer-client relationship and emphasize the lawyer's concern with the legal aspects of his client's problem.

Right Of Licensed Practitioner To Enjoin Unlicensed Practice In His Profession, Edwin P. Yaeger

Buffalo Law Review

Burden v. Hoover, 9 Ill. 2d 114, 137 N. E. 2d 59 (1956).

Book Reviews, William J. Bowe, Ralph S. Brown Jr., Leonard S. Powers, Hiram H. Lesar, Leonard Oppenheim, John S. Bradway, Richard C. Maxwell, Edward L. Barrett Jr., Charles H. Livengood Jr.

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Miscellaneous—Attorneys—Disbarment, Robert Rosinski

Buffalo Law Review

In re Ginsberg, 1 N. Y. 2d 144, 134 N. E. 2d 193 (1956).

The Federal Loyalty-Security Program, By The Special Committee Of The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York, Thomas M. Scanlon

Indiana Law Journal

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